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Customers aren’t choosing Red Hat or Microsoft, they choose to use both technologies. Microsoft and Red Hat joined forces in late 2015. We started by making Red Hat solutions available natively to Microsoft Azure customers, delivering integrated enterprise support across hybrid environments, collaborating on .NET for a new generation of applications. We’re also adding Windows support in OpenShift, OpenShift Dedicated on Azure and SQL Server support in OpenShift and Red Hat Linux to our joint roadmap, and extending the integrated, co-located support that has been a signature of our partnership.
With Azure, Microsoft offers a comprehensive set of cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy, and manage applications through our global network of datacenters. Integrated tools, DevOps, and a marketplace support you in efficiently building anything from simple mobile apps to internet-scale solutions.

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We are leaders in digital services with circa 100,000 employees in 73 countries, serving a global client base. We strive to create the firm of the future. We believe that bringing together people, business & technology is the way forward. At Atos, we embrace this journey, striving to remain the trusted partner that delivers digital empowerment to our clients. We are the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games. “Our vision for the future: to accelerate progress by uniting people, business and technology” – Thierry Breton, Chairman & CEO

Entrepreneurs in disruptive technology, 400 professionals and 3 offices at your service in Benelux. At Devoteam, we deliver innovative technology consulting for business. We are 4,000 professionals dedicated to ensuring our clients win their digital battles. Present in 20 countries in EMEA, and drawing on 20 years of experience, we improve business performance making their companies truly digital. We build IT infrastructure for digital, and make sure people are along for the ride. Pioneering in open source technology innovations, the international Devoteam Open Solutions center-of-expertise groups our specialists that are dedicated to global leading open source solutions and corresponding technology consulting. With our main technology partner Redhat we focus in Benelux on Redhat Cloud Solutions and Redhat JBoss Middleware.

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Axians is the VINCI Energies brand entirely dedicated to ICT. We offer smart ICT- and telecom solutions with a human touch, for a wide variety of sectors: health care, industrial environment, banking & insurance, research & education, service providers & operators and local authorities. Our approach covers the entire project life cycle, from design, implementation and operation up to commissioning, management & maintenance. Moreover, we present an extensive service offer and customized software and hardware for various sectors. Axians offers the unique combination of a local partner, situated nearby its customers, and the advantages and power of a global, multi-specialist network. Internationally, Axians is present in 15 different countries, employing over 7.000 people. In Belgium 150 experts are at your service, operating from 4 main sites: Ghent, Nivelles, Brussels and Antwerp.

Conclusion is the name of our unique ecosystem. An ecosystem specialized in Business Transformation and IT Services. Within this ecosystem, Conclusion Xforce has extensive and versatile expertise in the areas of Linux & Unix, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Automation and Monitoring with a focus on building, administrating and improving critical infrastructures. Conclusion Xforce is Premier Business Partner and specialized in Red Hat Linux, Ansible, Satellite, Ansible, OpenShift and Cloudforms.

HCS Company is a small but knowledgeable company specializing in DevOps with a technology focus on Red Hat and Enterprise Open Source Solutions. Our > 30 engineers are highly qualified DevOps Architects and DevOps Consultants and Engineers working on strategic, tactical and operational level maintaining and migrating Infrastructure and Middleware environments. About 40% of our staff is working on a daily basis pro-actively on Red Hat Solutions. Our mission is to Help Clients Succeed by helping them to Simplify IT. Please find a short introduction of our company here: https://vimeo.com/204951600

Open Line, cloud computing starts here! Open Line specialises in developing and managing ICT infrastructures and cloud solutions. With more than 160 employees, Open Line is a healthy, stable and constantly expanding organisation with a growing customer base and two highly professional data centres. Open Line has various contract forms, such as consultancy, managed services and projects. They support organisations in the development and implementation of complex ICT projects. Quality is paramount and Open Line was one of the first ICT companies in the Netherlands to achieve ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certification for service management. This ensures that Open Line meets all its obligations to its customers and carries them out within a controllable system. This is what it means, this is your reliable and innovative cloud solution specialist!

Piros, brand new unit of the Cronos Group (+4200 employees and biggest solution provider in the Benelux), is a Red Hat eco-system within Cronos and Xplore Group that covers the full Red Hat product portfolio. From web-application development to system administration, mobile development, e-commerce implementation, data science, storage and cloud hosting solutions, Piros can support you! Our team has a unique approach, combining the experience of world leading platforms and open source technologies with best practices in digital commerce and cloud infrastructure.
We make time to understand your business and objectives in order to help you design the digital future roadmap of your company and create a state of the art digital experience. Our clients are companies in the mid- and high-end market in B2C and B2B with HQ in the Benelux. With a heritage spanning three decades, we continue to invest in our position as market leader in digital solutions as real 'digital Xplorers'. As the one and only Belgian Red Hat Premier Business partner and recently named Belgium’s Red Hat Services partner of the year, we are your partner of choice when it comes to adopting Open-Source technology.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is global leader in high performance, high efficiency server technology and innovation. We develop and provide end-to-end green computing solutions to the data center, cloud computing, enterprise IT, big data, high performance computing, or HPC, and embedded markets. Our solutions range from complete server, storage, blade and workstations to full racks, networking devices, server management software and technology support and services. We offer our customers a high degree of flexibility and customization by providing what we believe to be the industry's broadest array of server configurations from which they can choose the optimal solution which fits their computing needs. Our server systems, subsystems and accessories are architecturally designed to provide high levels of reliability, quality and scalability, thereby enabling our customers benefits in the areas of compute performance, density, thermal management and power efficiency to lower their overall total cost of ownership.
Supermicro established in 1993 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Supermicro employs approximately 1,000 people worldwide and has been profitable every year since inception, generating over $2 billion in sales during its initial 16 years of operation.

At Trivento we believe that digital innovation makes customers, partners and co-workers more and more powerful and demanding. In a digital era, organizations need to invest in next gen technology to engage with online customers. This requires cloud native architectures, API platforms and frontend solutions that are data driven, elastic scalable and resilient. Meet Trivento, next generation software that delights you!

XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale Continuous Delivery and DevOps software, providing companies with the visibility, automation and control to deliver software faster and with less risk. Global market leaders rely on XebiaLabs software to meet the increasing demand for accelerated and more reliable software releases. For more information, please visit www.xebialabs.com.

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Cegeka is an independent technology service provider that guides its customers through digital transformation by functioning as a strategic partner with strong expertise in multi-cloud services. Cegeka’s support for its customers includes software and infrastructure solutions, development and implementation of applications for exponential technologies, and outsourcing.
Cegeka is a Belgian company employing more than 4,000 people. In 2017, the Cegeka Group achieved a turnover of €440 million and growth of 6% compared to 2016. Cegeka has offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Luxemburg, Austria, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic and provides services to customers across Europe.

Cisol is a young company founded in 2017. Specialized in transforming your IT-infrastructure into a more versatile, flexible, scalable and automated one. Customer demands are increasing by the day, that’s why investing and sharing in knowledge is one of our key pillars. Despite our age, we already support multiple major companies not only on (remote) managing their current on-premise Unix/Linux/Microsoft workloads, but at the same time building up their new (hybrid) cloud solution together. Taking on challenges and combing technologies is what we do best. Take a look at https://www.cisol.nl and lets get on that journey together!

As a global IT company with thirty years of experience, COMPAREX is one of the world’s leading IT service providers and no. 1 software license management company in the EMEA markets. COMPAREX develops innovative services that support management and leverage software products, leading to an overall improvement of workforce productivity. COMPAREX serves corporate customers spanning from small businesses to large international corporations as well as public institutions – supporting every customer during their digital journey towards productivity optimization. The portfolio has a solid foundation in license management, software procurement and cloud services. Substantial professional and managed services complete the portfolio to support customers with services tailored to their business demands. With the statement “By Your Side in a Digital World”, COMPAREX underlines its goal to inspire customers with possibilities and opportunities for their digital transformation, by addressing key customer priorities. The COMPAREX Group employs more than 2,450 people at over 80 locations in 35 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas. In the fiscal year 2017/18 the COMPAREX Group generated a revenue of € 2,533 million / $ 2,965 million.

CyberArk is the global leader in privileged access security, a critical layer of IT security to protect data, infrastructure and assets across the enterprise, in the cloud and throughout the DevOps pipeline. CyberArk delivers the industry’s most complete solution to reduce risk created by privileged credentials and secrets. The company is trusted by the world’s leading organizations, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 100, to protect against external attackers and malicious insiders. For over a decade CyberArk has led the market in securing enterprises against cyber attacks that take cover behind insider privileges and attack critical enterprise assets. Today, only CyberArk is delivering a new category of targeted security solutions that help leaders stop reacting to cyber threats and get ahead of them, preventing attack escalation before irreparable business harm is done. With offices and authorized partners worldwide, CyberArk is a vital security partner to more than 4,000 global businesses, including more than 50% of the Fortune 100 and more than 30% of the Global 2000

Dynatrace has redefined how you monitor today’s digital ecosystems. AI-powered, full stack and completely automated, it’s the only solution that provides answers, not just data, based on deep insight into every user, every transaction, across every application. Our unrivaled leadership in the application performance monitoring space is underscored by the fact that the biggest and brightest global companies choose to partner with us – 9/10 global retailers, 9/10 tech brands, 8/10 banks, 8/10 retailers, 9/10 cloud providers and 9/10 manufacturers. Not only do we monitor our customers’ most critical applications, we power their digital transformation strategies. We allow them to scale to the cloud, delight end users, innovate faster and modernize their IT operations with absolute confidence. http://www.dynatrace.com

Global Knowledge is in EMEA Red Hat training reseller of the year and worldwide leader in IT training and learning services. We empower organizations, teams and individuals with the skills and best practices necessary to leverage the technologies and competencies critical for sustained success and to create competitive advantages. With over 15 corporate offices around the world, our 1,500 employees are helping clients succeed in over 100 countries.

How do you build a secure network, which is still flexible and scalable and which is still being developed? That was our challenge and we are proud of the end result: a super safe network based on Cisco ACI, which has proven itself in the field of security, in combination with Red Hat OpenStack. That's why our unique infrastructure is not only safe, but also flexible: a combination that is almost unprecedented. Our servers are safe in the Netherlands and therefore we don’t have to deal with the so-called 'Patriot Act'. The NSA cannot force us to give information and we have been well-armed against illegal ways of hacking servers.
With Hot Potatoes your applications, websites and other complex software are in safe Dutch hands. We know exactly what we need to do to host your data super secure, while you can have access always and anywhere.

With over a hundred employees, ISAAC helps their clients to solve complex internet questions. This involves e-commerce, e-finance, integration, artificial intelligence and virtual- and augmented reality. User friendliness, safety and robustness are always paramount. Complexity in projects inspires us to excel again and again. This passion is rooted in the people who work at ISAAC: We love complexity!

Kangaroot is Benelux’s top Linux & open source service provider. Since 2000 we design, implement, maintain & support IT infrastructures based on Linux and open source. Innovation & creativity are key when Kangaroot looks for the perfect tailor-made solution for an IT-infrastructure. This optimizing the flexibility and continuity of an organization. On top of that organizations lower their IT capital costs and operational expenses. Our support engineers are always on call. Every training aligns perfectly with the organizational and business needs of the customer. The seminars, workshops, hands-on training sessions & mentoring of Kangaroot are all based on best practices & extensive experience. With an office in Antwerp (Belgium) the company serves customers like: Brussels Airport, Digipolis, Federal Government Internal Affairs, European Parliament, Thomas Cook, Essent, Greenpeace International, …. Find out what Kangaroot can do for you at www.kangaroot.net

NGINX, Inc. is the company behind the popular open source project trusted by more than 400 million sites. NGINX offer a suite of technologies for developing and delivering modern applications. The NGINX Application Platform enables enterprises undergoing digital transformation to modernize legacy, monolithic applications as well as deliver new, microservices-based applications. Companies like Netflix, Starbucks, and McDonalds rely on NGINX to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and speed innovation.

Open Circle Solutions was founded in 2014 with a vision aimed at autonomy, but also flexibility and a welcoming attitude towards new ideas, formed around a team of experienced consultants. The founders realised that from the first moment, the employees would determine the success of the company. We pay a lot of attention to communication and maintaining the open culture. We commit to fun and transparency, during informal social events and trips with partners included and also during the quarterly theme days, frequent knowledge sessions and evenings to train soft skills. From day one, Open Circle Solutions has had a focus on Open Source technology. Our consultants actively participate in these communities, where we share our experience and find new ways to optimise our services. The next few years we will continue to focus on the growth of our three units: • Java for building custom applications for business critical processes and integration • Mobile for realising B2C and B2B apps on smartphones and tablets that integrate with business applications • Business Intelligence for reporting, but especially for the analysis of Big Data We also explore new and upcoming technologies in our Research and Development unit, called Digital Labs. This is also where we develop our own, innovative products.

SEP AG is a manufacturer of backup and disaster recovery solutions to protect cross-platform and heterogeneous IT-environments. Reliable restores, a flexible licensing model, high product standards and an attractive price performance ratio are only four of countless arguments why organizations and enterprises in over 50 countries trust in the Hybrid Backup solution SEP sesam.

Sysdig is the cloud-native intelligence company.
We have created the only unified platform to deliver application security, monitoring, and forensics in a microservices-friendly architecture. Our open source technologies have attracted a community of over a million developers, administrators and other IT professionals looking for deep visibility into applications and containers. Our cloud-native intelligence platform monitors and secures millions of containers across hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies and web-scale properties. Learn more at www.sysdig.com

With a footprint in more than 20 countries, 37,900 employees, and external revenue of 6.9 billion euros (2017), T-Systems is one of the world's leading vendor independent providers of digital services headquartered in Europe.
T-Systems is partnering its customers as they address the digital transformation. The company offers integrated solutions for business customers. The Deutsche Telekom subsidiary offers one-stop shopping: from the secure operation of legacy systems and classical ICT services, the transition to cloud-based services (including international networks, tailored infrastructure, platforms and software) as well as new business models and innovation projects in the Internet of Things. T-Systems can provide all this thanks to its global reach in fixed-network and mobile communications, its highly secure data centers, a comprehensive cloud ecosystem built around standardized platforms and global partnerships, and the ability to offer top levels of security.

Speakers

Aram Kananov joined Red Hat in month 2002 with a strong background in software development and technology businesses in Europe. Kananov is responsible for Red Hat Infrastructure product portfolio in EMEA.
Kananov’s responsibilities include providing in-depth market, industry and competitive analysis and positioning and providing structured feedback to Business Unit on customer requirements as well as product marketing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business unit managing the entire product portfolio life cycle from product introduction to end of life.

Title: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Can Do That?Abstract: When you think of Red Hat Enterprise Linux you might see it as as a workhorse, suitable for traditional COTS apps, or as a foundation for new technologies such as OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization. But did you know Red Hat Enterprise Linux fits into scenarios all over your enterprise? In this session, we’ll discuss how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be a pure OS play, or as an enabler of traditional and cloud virtualization. It can be a platform for application service support, and containerization, even artificial intelligence and machine learning. With additional packages, Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables software defined storage, IoT, and more. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a solid foundation for your today’s existing workloads with a plan to meet your business in its future phases with a platform for emerging technologies, too.

Fred is a passionate Open Source enthusiast, both in his career and in private. Has been working in Infra development for a very long time. Loves to tinker with ARM boards in his spare time and is a privacy and environmental advocate. Likes hiking, camping and reading.

Marcel Hergaarden is working as senior solution architect at Red Hat based in The Netherlands. At Red Hat his responsibilities include designing and implementing solutions based on Red Hat Software Defined Storage and other products where storage is involved. Marcel is involved in Gluster, Ceph, RHV (Virtualization), OpenStack, OpenShift, Containers and has been employed inside Red Hat since 2012.

Title: Red Hat Hyperconverged InfrastructureAbstract: About convergence of Virtualization, Storage and Software Defined Networking using Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Explanation of the concept and how to set the solution up.

Kees Zwart, is working as a linux-cloud consultant for ConclusionXforce, mostly helping customers implementing RedHat products. This to help customers getting the most out of their business.

Title: Cloudforms and more at DJI (Dienst Justitieele Inrichtingen).Abstract: In the session we will discuss a customer use-case, regarding their journey into the (private)cloud. Not only the technical challenges but also the impact at organisation level. In the technical part we will explain how we connected the Red Hat products in order to get a solid infrastructure to support this journey. Our project-team slogan is: Start-out small and expand.

Patrick is passionate about new technologies and architectures that help innovation driven, tech minded companies being succesful in a digital era. Patrick uses Cloud, containers and microservices architectures as his ‘tools’ to improve customer experience, time to market and quality of service. Patrick helps large organizations in the public and commercial domain, City of Amsterdam, Alliander, Bol.com, wehkamp.

Title: 3 biggest learnings: moving monoliths to a container management platform.Abstract: The presentation helps you to understand the challenges that any organization will encounter when moving monolithic applications to container platforms as OpenShift.

Vincent van Dam: With over 15 years of experience in software architecture, Vincent loves to glue things together – both on the business level between users and engineers, and in technology, where his inquisitive mind and engineering background enables him to solve the most complicated problem with elegant, simple solutions. Vincent is most happy when designs look good and the implementation just works.

Title: Social Gaming with OpenShift.Abstract: Gaming on OpenShift begs a two-fold question: why, and how? As for the most intriguing one, why? Because we can, but the built in scalability of the OpenShift platform and it's tight connection with a broad tool ecosphere allows for flexibility when deploying and managing large scale, social gaming experiments. As for the how, come and join us during the session and be prepared to learn about how to setup, monitor, scale – and hack – a game on OpenShift. There might even be a nice prize to win.

Danny Goovaerts: is CTO of The Glue which builds a contemporary, new software platform which enables financial institutions to quickly develop innovative financial services for today’s consumers. Danny has more than 20 years of experience in analysis, design and delivery of advanced software solutions, mainly in the financial services industry (clearing and settlement, retail banking, asset management, SWIFT connectivity,...). He was the head of the architecture and development teams for several software products for data access, messaging and connectivity (DataDirect, Capco, Swift) He strongly advocates that non-functional requirements have to be handled as first-class citizens. One of his guiding principles is : "Find a solution for your problem, not vice versa".Steven Trecinski: is a DevOps minded, Cloud focused Open Source enthusiast with an increasingly growing passion for Containers, Orchestrators, Microservices and Chaos Engineering. Steven is always on the lookout for new technologies that help drive automation in your development and operational teams.

Jasper GeraertsAs Business Development Manager Jasper takes responsibility of driving the adoption of Red Hat's Cloud, Management, Automation and Storage products within Large Financial Institutes and Telecommunication Providers.

Ruud Zwakenberg (1972) is a passionate solution architect with a unique 20+ year background in pre sales and consultancy. He has lots of experience in system, application and process integration in enterprise environments. Ruud worked for companies like ING, ATOS, Software AG and now Red Hat.

Title: Messaging as a Service with Red Hat AMQAbstract: The OpenShift platform offers advanced new possibilities, like Messaging as a Service with Red Hat AMQ. In this session, we take a deep dive into the world of enterprise messaging, we discuss the differences between traditional message brokerage and Kafka and we show the new products AMQ Streams and Messaging as a Service.

Roel is one of the Red Hat Solution Architects for Red Hat’s Middleware (JBoss) portfolio, for the Red Hat PaaS en Container platform OpenShift and Red Hat's Internet of Things. Roel works predominantly on advising potential and existing customers of Red Hat on determining their way to the Open Hybrid Clouds: How do you design applications for the Cloud, how does one bring (existing or legacy) applications to Clouds and how does one manage applications in Clouds. He also regularly speaks at customer, partner and Red Hat events to help create awareness, introduce the Red Hat portfolio and solutions and share how Open Source can help in future proofing companies.Wian is a Red Hat Solutions architect and a Devops/PaaS veteran. After having spent over a decade building developer centric Platform services both in the Netherlands and the U.S. he now spends his time advising current and potential Red Hat customers on their way to the Hybrid containerized cloud.

Title: Leveraging the power of Kubernetes with patterns for fun and profitAbstract: The way we design, develop and run applications on Cloud Native platforms like Kubernetes differs significantly from the traditional approach. When working with Kubernetes, there are fewer concerns for developers to think about, but at the same time, there are new patterns and practices for solving every-day challenges.
In this talk, we will look at a collection of common patterns for developing Cloud Native applications. These patterns encapsulate proven solutions to common problems and help you to prevent inventing the wheel again.

Wilco Riemersma, married, two kids (14 and 17), 48 years old, living in Reeuwijk, is a seasoned IT professional with a long track record in Systems Integration, Software Development and Infrastructure projects. Starting his career in 1995 he worked 100% of his time in engagements with the Dutch Central Government. He fulfilled roles like developer, designer, project manager, delivery manager and account manager. The last 2,5 years he spend as Key Account manager for a subset of Dutch Government organisations trying to bring the value of Open Source to them.

Title: Taking one step at the timeAbstract: (IT) organisations face a lot of innovations that they feel they need to adopt to address business goals. DevOps, Big Data, Microservices, Containers, CI/CD, self service IT, (Public) Cloud are the new gems. That same IT organisation is in a lot of cases left with an old fashioned and siloed IT landscape that is not easy to change. On top of that, budgets are spend in “Run & Operate” rather than “Innovation” and IT staff have too little experience in these modern IT paradigms. In this track Red Hat shows that not every organisation needs to leapfrog to adopt these technologies. It can also be done in a more set-by-step approach.

Sander Ettema: Originating from IT Infrastructure service delivery, Sander Ettema is now responsible for the organization-wide adoption of Continuous Delivery practices within Rabobank IT Systems. Sander strongly believes in autonomous teams. Within the financial industry this means a continuing battle between demands to remain secure and compliant as an organization and the freedom that allows teams to excel.
Gert-Jan van Halem: I am a long time Lean and Agile enthusiast. I love to help teams and organizations to add more value to their customers. With my masters degree in Computer Science and my experience as a manager, I am able to combine the hands-on implementation of automation and making sure this is embedded in the organization.Gert-Jan van Halem: I am a long time Lean and Agile enthusiast. I love to help teams and organizations to add more value to their customers. With my masters degree in Computer Science and my experience as a manager, I am able to combine the hands-on implementation of automation and making sure this is embedded in the organization.

Title: From months to minutes. A journey in Infra Automation by RabobankAbstract: From manually creating environments for developers to one-click provisioning of a complete continuous delivery system including the test environments. We will share this journey at the Rabobank with you. Share our learnings and show you how Red Hat products fit into this picture.

Title: Current state of affairs on the Proximus Telco CloudAbstract: Proximus shapes its telco cloud to the needs of their container projects. Running openshift on openstack with an external SDN, explores the boundaries of the technologies. Avoiding duplicate storage replication, double vxlan encapsulation, and flexible cloud native scale-out load balancers are some of the challenges we met.

Hans Bos has been working for Microsoft The Netherlands since 2006, the last eight years as National Technology Officer (NTO). In this role his focus is on the areas of technology in combination with society and economy. On a daily basis he connects with users, board of directors, regulators, policymakers and specialists on how the current and future technology can help organizations and people to achieve more.

Title: Red Hat and Microsoft AzureAbstract: This talk will help you understand the value of Microsoft Azure when using Red Hat solutions. Microsoft and Red Hat this year expanded their alliance to empower enterprise developers to run container-based applications across Microsoft Azure and on-premises. With this collaboration, the companies introduced the first jointly managed OpenShift offering in the public cloud, combining the power of Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, and Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud. Red Hat OpenShift on Azure is jointly engineered, and designed to reduce the complexity of container management for customers.

Jorge is the Open Source Technical Lead @ Microsoft in Western Europe. He is responsible to ensure that every organization and every person is able to leverage Azure to become more successful while using the tools and software they already know and love. He is one of the Azure Global Black Belts, a worldwide team that specializes in advanced cloud workloads and helps customers accelerate their innovation journey. Prior to this role he was helping startups grow and use the cloud as Technical Evangelist and supporting Microsoft’s Premier customers as one of its Premier Field Engineers. He has mix of Dev and Ops background, having started his career as a developer before moving to a sysadmin and then DevOps engineer role and has always worked with Open Source technologies both before and after joining Microsoft.

Title: Building an Open Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat and AzureAbstract: Business units and developers are leveraging cloud to drive business innovation and agility. And they are seeing great results, however it is still challenging for enterprises to build hybrid cloud architectures that allow them to become more agile and competitive. In this session, you will learn the benefits of combining Red Hat and Microsoft Azure services to build an open hybrid cloud. We will start by introducing what the partnership between Microsoft and Red Hat means for enterprises and why this is one of the most valued partnerships in the market.
We’ll then discuss reference architectures and demonstrate how you can deploy a microservices web application in a hybrid environment. Finally we’ll introduce and demonstrate the new (and unique in the market) Managed OpenShift on Azure offer and how it can be a game changer for enterprises.

Adam looks after the global Red Hat Emerging Technology practice within Atos. Working closely with Red Hat, Adam and his team create and deliver joint offerings that utilise the power of the Red Hat Emerging Technology portfolio and leverage both companies complementary skills and experience. With over 20 years in Cloud Sales, Marketing and Product Management, Adam has been responsible for delivering innovative solutions that provide real value to his customers. The last six years at Atos, Adam has been instrumental in creating its PaaS portfolio and driving the adoption of DevOps and incubation practices across Atos. With a background in Avant Garde theatre direction, Adam continues to explore (fearlessly) new digital territories and how they can have a positive impact on both commercial and social endeavours.

Title: Seamless Smart City deployment from Atos and Red HatAbstract: The Atos Tech team will be demonstrating their abilities to deploy an end-to-end fleet management system including transportation management and an IoT interoperability platform for air quality services. Come and find out how we do this using Atos Managed OpenShift and the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

Title: Migrate and modernize legacy applications using Red Hat and MendixAbstract: Do you want to make your legacy applications mobile and cloud native? Do you want to use new technologies such as AI, IoT and blockchain within your apps? Do you want to build your applications fast? We tell and demo you how to migrate and modernize your legacy applications using Red Hat and the Mendix low code application platform.

Title: Increase your Openshift Value with XebiaLabsAbstract: As a Red Hat certified technology partner, XebiaLabs accelerates OpenShift deployments and helps you accelerate the OpenShift adoption. RedHat and XebiaLabs will give you a complete solution for end-to-end enterprise software delivery for cloud and containers and a unified story to market to development and operations teams.

Title: API Management at Brussels AirportAbstract: The economical and IT drivers which resulted in the creation of an API Gateway at Brussels Airport. All based on a container model, developer portal and Rest API’s.

Margaret Dawson: A 20-year tech industry veteran, Margaret is the vice president of Portfolio Product Marketing at Red Hat, the world’s leading open source software company. She is a frequent author and speaker on digital disruption, emerging technologies, open source, and women leadership. A proven entrepreneur and intrapreneur, Margaret has led successful initiatives and teams at several startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and HP. Prior to Red Hat, she was Vice President of Product Marketing and Cloud Evangelist for HPE Helion, the cloud computing division of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
Margaret has worked and traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and North America. She was a foreign correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine, and spent a decade in the Greater China region, consulting with many technology companies and government agencies. Previously ranked as one of the top Women in Cloud Computing, Margaret is an advisor to Cloud Connect and the Cloud Network of Women (CloudNOW) as well as to multiple early-stage companies and CEOs. She is an active mentor for men and women in technology and was recently named Business Role Model of the Year for Women in IT, and Mentor and Coach of the Year in the Stevie Business Awards.

Title: How to survive and thrive amid digital disruptionAbstract: Every company in every industry across every geography is experiencing digital disruption. To not just survive but thrive amid this new competitive landscape, organizations are going through a major transformation of the business and IT. Digital Leaders are moving fast and embracing new technologies, processes, and cultural changes, such as DevOps, predictive analytics, open source, hybrid cloud and more. This discussion will introduce the market dynamics and what it takes to be a digital leader. Margaret Dawson, who works with enterprises and governments worldwide, will go beyond the hype and discuss architectural considerations, cloud strategies, how to align business and IT, and real-world examples. Whether you’re a digital laggard or in the middle of a major transformation, this session will give you ideas and new perspectives.

Dick has been leading Red Hat in the Benelux since September 2013. Seeing as Red Hat is a very flat organization where the best ideas win, Dick prefers to say that he is only responsible for approving expenses.
Although Dick has 20 years of experience with top players in the IT industry in both local and EMEA functions, these are not worth mentioning. In his vision and experience, Red Had has been and will continue to be an unparalleled experience in driving customer success.
Red Hat's Open Source based culture is simply much more than just a smart way of developing products.

Sebastiaan Laurijsse is a proven leader in digital with strong technical and business acumen and operational understanding in driving digital, customer centric strategies across multiple countries and regions. Able to structure and deliver complex solutions. A regular speaker and host on digital transformations. Strong operational focus, based on data and customer insight to inform, persuade and enable the strategy. An true innovator with a deep grasp of technology and change management.

Apart from being a very passionate presenter, Erik speaks from over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. After building his knowledge at Microsoft, Oracle, British Telecom and Cap Gemini, Erik joined Red Hat in 2014. His no-nonsense and hands-on approach will guarantee you lots of useful insights, tips and tools that you can leverage to your own digital journey.

As a Project Lead Rens achieved to get a new Software Shop up and scrumming with professional craftsmen, a world-class CI/CD pipeline and true team spirit. As an Agile Evangelist he challenges, inspires and encourages people in business and IT to cooperate beyond organizational, technical and personal capabilities in order to embrace Lean Startup, BizDevOps and agile principles in our corporate DNA. As an IT Lead he wants to further steer and improve Continuous Solution Delivery in order to realize Alphabet’s ambitions in the most effective way, making the journey as valuable and enjoyable as possible and ensuring that Alphabet's customers will continue to be the most happy mobility users.

Patrick joined Alphabet International (a BMW Group Company) as a Startup manager within the IT program OASIS-ACE (One Alphabet Strategy & International Solutions; Alphabet Core Enterprise). Within this enterprise environment we are building a platform for mobility solutions. The program adopted a LeSS structure (Large Enterprise Scaled Scrum).
Within our area we are trying to adopt DevOps, where we strive to optimize the collaboration between development and operations. We are always looking how to continuously improve our skills and are trying to vertically scale within our teams. We embrace DevOps for enabling faster, more predictable, more frequent and better software. Within our team we are developing a delivery pipeline for enabling fast feedback. The customers of our area are the feature teams. We have setup a pipeline with tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube and Nexus. We are responsible for our service runtime, which entails multiple cloud solutions such as OpenStack and OpenShift.
Since July 2017 I'm part of the Agile Change Team of Alphabet. Within this team we are striving to transform IT and the business to one agile organization. My main role her is to coach the team and transfer knowledge about automation towards the line organization.

Chris Verhoef: Working for 25 years in IT now. Since almost 10 years I’m working at ProRail as a IT Infrastructure Architect with the main focus on our mission critical IT infrastructure. I love to take challenges and make things happen together with reduction of complexity and keeping things as simple as possible.

Maarten van Kessel: Working for Itility since 6 years as lead engineer and solution architect. Strong opponent of manual labor, automated things in (private) cloud, storage, operating systems and applications.

Title: Platform delivery with AnsibleAbstract: Within ProRail we are taking the next step in automation for delivering ICT Infrastructure within our mission critical environment. For this next step Ansible is used as the main automation tool together with de Ansible Tower as orchestrator. During our presentation we will show how Ansible is integrated within the CI/CD environment to achieve hands-off IT.

Yvo Wiskerke is working as Sr. Business Development manager for Red Hat in The Netherlands and started in 2016.
At Red Hat his responsibilities are business development for key accounts for Cloud and Storage propositions, this includes Ansible.

Title: Getting started with Ansible for WindowsAbstract: How to get started with Ansible for Windows. Covering common use cases for Windows.

Val has a passion for discovering & building better ways for leading people & organizations. He has spent most of his career helping organizations innovate and transform. From technology-driven, through Lean and agile-driven transformations to building modern organizations based on open leadership, community leadership and breaking hierarchies. He is a firm believer and advocate for open leadership and radical management. He would gladly help you shift perspectives and suggest approaches from Lean Change Management, community leadership and Design Thinking to help kick start cultural transformation journeys. Val has coached a number of executives and middle level managers throughout their cultural transformation journeys. He is currently part of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs team with focus on the Open Organization, cultural transformation and building high performing teams making use of agile, Lean UX and DevOps.

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Workshop Ansible + Ansible Tower 101
Automation is key in today’s IT environment. Whether you are a sysadmin, a systems integrator or an infrastructure designer, Ansible helps you out deploying and maintaining automated infrastructure setups. The Ansible targets are not limited to VMs, but reaches out to network devices, storage systems and OSes of all kinds.

In this introductory workshop, you will hands-on learn how to set up Ansible and deploy a virtual machine with a full web stack. At the same time, we introduce Ansible Tower to manage your deployment playbooks.

Workshop OpenShift Application Monitoring (with Grafana & Prometheus)

OpenShift is an open source container application platform by Red Hat based on top of Docker containers and the Kubernetes container cluster manager. During this OpenShift workshop we will monitor an application (metrics + logging).